Category: Negative Carbon Road Trip

Delayed for 70 minutes at the border while they checked over my apparently unusual car. Sigh. Currently at 177.7 miles, charged to 75% and will cell balance and check battery temperature with Leafspy before leaving here. Good news is battery temp is almost exactly the same as it was three charges ago, hovering at 93.8°F. […]

Leg 2: 51.9 miles, avg speed 50.2 mph. Overall speed to charger #2 (Aerovironment Bellingham) ~36.1 mph. Expect to leave here by 15:25…which would make an average of ~30.1mph The temperature has dropped to 35 degrees which is not very helpful. The border is approximately 27 miles from here and I will hit it by […]

A post in multiple parts. January 1, 2016: I set out to dispel the myth that the Leaf “can’t do long trips.” Opening leg:The King County South Water Treatment plant to Seattle Premium Outlets NRG EVgo DCFC. 50.9 miles in 58 minutes.+15 minutes waiting for previous customer to complete her charge.+4:58 to get NRG to […]

So rather than just blindly make up stories about what electric vehicles are and can do, why not look at the facts? *a modest EPA-estimated 84 mile range 2013 Leaf just completed over 308 miles per day average for 11 days straight–despite taking a day and a half off.*the same car completed 563 miles one […]

At 25,293 miles over 126 days, I’m some 25 miles from the Willits KOA, where I will spend the night in a cabin some 40% of the way up the coast. There has been some rain, it is 38°F outside, and Nissan Leaf Range Estimator shows an approximate 1000′ net climb to Willits from here. […]

I put the Leaf through a little test this week: a quick trip from Corvallis, Oregon to Encinitas, California. About four days of driving with a bunch of interesting stops and photo ops. A major highlight:Mark Frohnmayer of Arcimoto gave me a tour of their production facilities for the upcoming SRK8–a three-wheeled, super economical electric […]

Not me this time, actually… Reposted from Facebook: Can we do more to reach out to fellow Leaf drivers? I came to this question a few minutes ago after a startling…almost painful…coincidence. I was charging over at Taylor Shellfish farms seafood market and a woman pulled up in a black 2011. She was a model […]

Charging stations. What should they look like, and where should they be? In my view, withmany great examples are already out there, we need to STOP reinventing the wheel. The standards are already being set in out-of-the-way places by small businesses like Nikola Broadband in Sequim (24/7 video monitoring system), and blink-and-you-pass-by towns such as […]

In light of some comments I’ve fielded from various sources, I thought I would take a few moments to summarize what has been accomplished thus far, at least some of the things I’ve left out, and where I plan to go from here. I will try to keep this brief; I am fully charged and […]

I am in another capital…in another country…but also in another state. To explain will require a lengthy post. It is about time, though I should no more believe I can make up for lost time and lost blog posts than any of you who are *still* driving with gas can make up for lost miles. […]

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